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[outstandingbalance]

Who: Natasha Romanoff
Broadcast: Text
Action: Iskaulit
When: Now-ish or tomorrow morning

W4MW4Friendly Fight

Woman seeking sparring partner for morning workout. Call it cabin fever, but looking for new challenges. Normal human to moderately enhanced welcome. High skill level preferred, but beginners welcome if they're interested in a lesson.

Reply here if interested, or see Natasha Romanoff in the gym, tomorrow morning 8am.

[True to her word, Natasha can be found at the gym on the Iskaulit in the morning. She's already dressed and warmed up. She looks like she means business, but less angry or troubled—not like some of her other recent turns at the gym—but she's serious enough to give someone second thoughts if they weren't entirely sure in the first place.

Who's up for a few rounds?]

Comments

[outstandingbalance]

Got it in one.

[Her tone makes it clear that that wasn't too much of a challenge, but it's not tart.]

Do I live up to your expectations?

[winn]

You're a - humanoid looking woman so. Yeah? [ he didn't really have a whole lot of expectations, it's not like they've been speaking for months or kara told him endless stories about her.

and the fleet kind of beats expectations out of him. he's friends with a pink talking pony, so. ]

For the sake of my self esteem I'm just gonna not ask. [ he doesn't really want to know what sort of impression he made, does he? ]

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha hasn't had direct contact with the pony yet.]

Afraid you didn't live up to them, or afraid you did?

[winn]

Yes.

[ all depending on what her expectations were. ]

So, you had questions?

[outstandingbalance]

You could say that. There's a lot to figure out here and only so many resources.

[winn]

Of questionable reliability. [ he nods ] But what I got I'll share.

[outstandingbalance]

Very questionable. And a lot of it just speculation, far as I can see. But we work with what we have.

Feeling safer now?

[winn]

[ he shrugs ]

As safe as it gets. Though if they use the network as a roadmap of where to focus on at any given time we probably have a giant red circle around us.

[ waving at the ceiling. ]

[outstandingbalance]

I still wonder just what it is you think is going to happen.

[That might not happen anyway, at least. Natasha doesn't consider herself uncautious, but if they're being monitored, they're being monitored. She doubts it's ever limited to the network.]

[winn]

Well, there are two basic classics - one is the so called "glitches" which is just -- a terrible name for them, they're obviously purposeful. And the other's the comas. Not a fan of either one.

[ he doubts it's limited to the network too, but since they can't find the cameras, well, if there's a tiny chance he could get something under the radar - he's taking it. ]

[outstandingbalance]

I'm familiar with both, generally speaking. Are comas usually a response to... I don't know, getting the Atroma's attention?

[winn]

Like I said - all we really have our theories, this is purely circumstantial, but usually, people seem to wake up from them with new memories - either from home or other places they've been kidnapped to - they're changed, somehow. I've been working on some theories and - out for two weeks, not a single new memory, up just in time to move on to the next destination.

[outstandingbalance]

I've seen both of those. It seems pretty random to me.

[winn]

You have? Cuz when I surveyed all I got was people saying they remembered more stuff. Who hasn't? I'd like to talk to them.

[ and specifically ask them what they were doing right before. ]